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An entertainer dressed as Darth Vader from "Star Wars" walks down the corridor to pose for the media during the opening of Lucasfilm's new animation production facility, the Sandcrawler, in Singapore Jan. 16, 2014.

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An entertainer dressed as Darth Vader from "Star Wars" walks down the corridor to pose for the media during the opening of Lucasfilm's new animation production facility, the Sandcrawler, in Singapore Jan. 16, 2014.

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An elderly Bangladeshi woman carries a basket on a cold and foggy winter morning on the banks of the River Turag in Ashulia near Dhaka, Bangladesh on Jan. 17, 2014.

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A dogsled team pulls passengers on a scenic ride across Mirror Lake on Jan. 17, 2014, in Lake Placid, New York.

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A man holds his dog while waiting to be anointed outside the Saint Anton church in Madrid on Jan. 17, 2014. It is the animal's patron saint day in which thousands of people all over Spain bring their pets to churches to be blessed.

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A worker stuffs a toy bear with cotton at a toy factory in Wuhan, Hubei province, January 15, 2014.

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A horse and rider walk over a burning pyre in the central Spanish village of San Bartolome de Pinares on Jan. 16, 2014 during celebrations for the feast of Saint Anthony, patron saint of animals. Since time immemorial, the horses' owners have conditioned their beasts to pass through the flames marking a religious folklore deeming the process will cleanse the village of disease.

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Mark Davis gives a thumbs-up toward a helicopter as he sprays water around his property on Jan. 16, 2014, in Azusa, Calif. A wildfire burned out of control near homes in the dangerously dry foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains fanned by gusty Santa Ana winds that spit embers into neighborhoods in the city below, igniting trees.

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A man displaced by the fighting in Bor county, who has just arrived, is leading cattle out of the boat in the port in Minkaman, in Awerial county in South Sudan, on Jan. 15, 2014.

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A pronghorn peers through the open gate of a trailer as it is released on Forest Service land outside of Fort Stanton, near Capitan, New Mexico on Jan. 14, 2014. New Mexico Department of Game and Fish officials captured and relocated dozens of the antelope-like animals over two days in an effort to rebuild dwindling pronghorn herds in remote parts of New Mexico and Arizona.

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Smoke rises from buildings after what activists said was shelling from forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the besieged area of Homs, Syria on Jan. 15, 2014.

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Ukrainian pro-government lawmaker Volodymyr Malyshev, left, wipes blood from his face after a scuffle in the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev, Ukraine on Jan. 16, 2014. Lawmakers scuffled in the Ukrainian parliament during a debate on this year's budget. The budget draft, which has already been delayed by almost two months, was passed in its second reading.

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Zubair Ahmad plays with a plastic gun on a roof top in the old quarters of Kabul on January 16, 2014. Economic development is considered a vital weapon to stop the country from sinking back into civil war and to stem Islamist extremism after 100,000 international combat troops pull out.

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Migratory birds fly above children taking a boat ride in the waters of river Yamuna during early morning on the occasion of the Makar Sankranti festival in old Delhi on Jan. 14, 2014. Makar Sankranti is an auspicious festival celebrated by Hindus across the country that marks the start of the harvest season.

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Participants scramble onto a fence as bulls charge towards them during a bull-taming sport called Jallikattu in Palamedu, on India on Jan. 15, 2014. Jallikattu is an ancient heroic sporting event of the Tamils played during the harvest festival of Pongal.

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Thai anti-government protesters take a selfie photograph with an iPad at Victory monument during ongoing rallies in Bangkok on Jan. 15, 2014. Thailand's prime minister urged anti-government protesters to vent their anger against her at the ballot box, insisting that elections were the best way to solve the country's deepening political crisis.

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The tower of New York's World Trade Center rises through a blanket of fog on Wednesday morning, Jan. 15, 2014, in this view looking south from the 48th floor at 42nd Street and 11th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. New Jersey is visible at top right.

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Coptic Pope Tawadros II shows his ink-stained finger after voting in the country's constitutional referendum at a polling station in Cairo, Egypt on Jan. 14, 2014. Egyptians are voting on a draft for their country's new constitution that represents a key milestone in a military-backed roadmap put in place after President Mohammed Morsi was overthrown in a popularly backed coup last July.

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Kashmiri Muslim women look towards a cleric (not pictured) displaying the holy relic believed to be the hair from the beard of the Prophet Mohammed at Hazratbal shrine during Eid-e-Milad , or the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammad on Jan. 14, 2014 in Srinagar, India.

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Japanese women in kimonos ride a train after a ceremony celebrating Coming of Age Day at an amusement park in Tokyo on Jan. 13, 2014.

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Swans swim near riverside properties partially submerged in floodwaters at Henley-on-Thames in southern England on Jan. 13, 2014. More than 1,700 homes and businesses have been affected by the floods in England since late December, which also killed seven people, according to news reports.

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Olympic figure skater Gracie Gold performs at The Rink at Rockefeller Center on Jan. 14, 2014 in New York City.

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Tennis fans protect themselves from the sun during a first round match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia on Jan. 14, 2014.

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Palestinian policemen stand near burning tires set ablaze by demonstrators outside Jalazoun refugee camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Jan. 12, 2014. At least 50 people were hurt on Sunday in a clash between Palestinian police and residents of the refugee camp protesting against a strike in a U.N. aid agency that has paralyzed services, police and an ambulance service said.

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Villagers sit in the back of a truck as they are evacuated to a temporary evacuation center after their village was hit by ash and mud from an eruption of Mount Sinabung following a further series of eruptions of Mount Sinabung on Jan. 11, 2014 in Sigarang Garang, Indonesia.

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Israeli honour guards carry the coffin of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon into the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, on Jan. 12, 2014 in Jerusalem, Israel. Former PM Ariel Sharon's died on Jan. 11, 2014 after suffering from multiple organ failure. Sharon, 85, was hospitalised in Tel Hashomer hospital near Tel Aviv and has been in a coma since January 4, 2006.

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Indian villagers participate in community fishing as part of the Bhogali Bihu celebrations at the Goroimari Lake in Panbari village, about 31 miles east of Gauhati, India on Jan. 13, 2014. Bhogali Bihu? marks the end of the harvesting season in the north eastern state of Assam.

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A young boy carries chickens off a boat arriving in the village of Minkamen in Awerial county, South Sudan on Jan. 11, 2014. According to the latest figures from the United Nations, some 75,000 people have settled in Minkamen following clashes in nearby Bor, 40km away, between the South Sudanese army and rebels led by Riek Machar.

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The sky is reflected on the Uyuni Salt Flats as a car drives by in Uyuni, Bolivia on Jan. 11, 2014. The motorcycles and quads of the Dakar Rally will race through parts of the Uyuni Salt Flats on Jan. 13, 2014.

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Equipped with cow bells a so-called Silvesterchlaus (New Years Claus) walks in Urnaesch, Switzerland on Jan. 13, 2014, to offer best wishes for the New Year, for those following the Julian calendar, to the farmers in this region. After their performance of singing and dancing the Silvesterchlaeuse receive food, hot drinks or money.

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A woman views the decoration on the street of Chinatown on January 11, 2014 in Singapore. On January 31st, people around the world will welcome the Year of the Horse, one of the most anticipated holidays of the Chinese calendar.